Missing things in plain sight

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Do you miss things in plain sight?

Tuesday night, I did not see a tree and a branch of it flicked my glasses right off of my face. My vision is so bad without them I could not see them. my wife found them. I literally did not see the tree. I saw an Island in a parking lot covered in grass but no tree.

My wife jokes the best place to hide things from me is in plain sight because I won't see them.

I thought about posting this question last night, but had already shut down for the night.

Your wife stole my quip. I always yell at my wife to quit putting things in plain sight. She knows damned well that's my blind spot!

I can't find things right in front of me with my glasses ON, for crying out loud. It happens to me many times every single day. It's maddening!

Hairbrushes are the worst

i was working in a restaurant and the manager told me to look for something in the refrigerator. of course i couldnt find it. she said, "you're like a big baby, can't do anything, don't see what's right in front of you." i swear i could've strangled her.
several times i've looked for something desperately untill someone showed me it was right in front of me. going on a job interview, the boss told me over the phone, "you can't miss it." but i knew i could, and i did. finally, i found it and got the job.

I have this problem all the time with refrigerator items or something on a shelf. Someone well tell me to grab something and I come back saying I couldn't find it. They go, and sure enough, it's in a plain as day spot. It's highly embarrassing when that happens. I think it's because I sometimes get a visual picture in my mind of what the item is supposed to look like, and if it ends up looking slightly different from my mental picture I will completely miss it.

I have this annoying problem. When I was going to my friend's house for the first time, she told me not to open the gate because there is wet cement in front of it waiting to dry, so she said to come through a gap between a tree and the hedge at the side of her garden (which was to be filled after the cement at the gate dries). Then she said, ''you will see the gap and it's easy to walk through'', so I said OK, but when I arrived I couldn't see the gap anywhere. I felt like a right twat pacing about near the hedge looking for the gap that was probably directly in front of me, big enough to see. Then my friend's older brother (who is really good-looking and cute) opened the door and said, ''oh are you looking for the gap? It's there'', and of course it was right near me! I never felt so stupid in all my life!

I also have object blindness (which is the same thing I suppose). If somebody says, ''pass me the pen over there'', I go to get it but the pen literally disappears right in front of my eyes, until the person gets up themselves and gets it, it then re-appears. It makes me feel so silly. No wonder people call me daft all the time.

But the weirdest thing is, when somebody's looking around for something they have lost, I'm the first one to find it. I'm so weird.

Constantly. I've developed a system over the years to minimize it for important things, though. I.e. keys, wallet, & notes/shopping list are either in my pocket or in a basket that is specifically for them. If they end up anywhere else I have a hell of a time finding them again (my memory also sucks), and then there's getting near meltdown because my plan/routine is getting screwed up because I can't proceed).

I'm able to drive ok, though, oddly enough.

Oh, and I find that colored lenses help somewhat with being able to see more things at the same time. When I put them on my first thought is "huh, I didn't notice all that other stuff before."

You have mentioned before that you have Social Phobia. Maybe this could be part of it. When somebody asks you to fetch something for them, you're so afraid you won't see it looking at you right in front of you that you actually don't see it. Now you have become prone to missing objects.

I have a similar problem when getting something out of my bag. When I want my keys I pick out everything but, then when I want my purse I pick out my keys, and so on. I think that happens to most people though especially if you're a woman with a cluttered handbag.

happens to me all the time-it gets me very frustrated all the time.

Happens to me all the time. I always feel stupid asking where something is because I know it's probably right in front of me.

Once my mum asked me to go fetch a pile of 20-pound notes she left on the arm of one of the settee in the living-room, and I hunted high and low for them and they were on the arm of the settee - so I actually felt around the arm of the settee with my hands - and the floor - because I knew they were there but I probably couldn't see them. But turns out my mum was wrong - she had actually already put them in her pocket but had forgotten.

This is called familiarity blindness, you are so used to seeing something or focusing on something that should be there that you miss it much like when psychology students were asked to count cars driving along the road and they completely missed a man in a gorilla suit walking down the pavement on the other side...

i'm always dodging random objects at the last minute. if i'm lucky

Hahahaha hilarious.. My problem is bigger objects.

Also things that change, like if I go round my parents house and they happen to change brands of products that they use (such that the colours on packages are different) then I can find myslef in a loop for hours, because I'm far too stubborn to ask for help..

I have to agree with hairbrushes though, they just disapear like magic, the other week I was forced to brush my hair with a fork!

Not sure if this is typical to just aspies though.

That's exactly what I do.

Yes!! omg I was looking for a place and people who could relate!! For me it's smaller objects left in the open and I'm like WHERE ARE THEY?!

I've actually flunked parts of classes in college because of this problem.

Short story: Had a scenario-based class in college (law enforcement). Had to talk to a guy, and then check a back room. Well I was more worried about finding someone who could hurt me. I checked the room and didn't find a thing.

After the scenario the teacher asked me, "how did you miss the drugs?" He opened the door and there was a fake pipe and fake bag of drugs on the counter - in plain sight! I told him I was more worried about a gun or a guy with a gun than I was drugs.

Still got a failing grade though.